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sunny Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Other Topics	Posted May 16, 2008 at 4:03:39 PM Subject: Displaying the locales in plain english Hi, I am developing a program that would ask the user to set the locale. For that, I need to display them to user in plain english. like English(US) English (Uk) depending on the user selection I need to set the locale. Is there a command in redhat linux that would display locales in more friendly mamner rather than like this "en-US.UTF-8" Thanks, sunny.
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Anthony Robbins Joined May 06, 2008 Posts: 22 Other Topics	Posted: May 16, 2008 6:16:46 PM Subject: Displaying the locales in plain english Unfortunately this is ambiquous since "en-US.UTF-8" also sets the encoding, so it would be English (US) UTF-8 /usr/share/locale/locale.alias and /usr/share/i18n/locales should have everything you need, eg: # grep -i title /usr/share/i18n/locales/* /usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_DJ:title "Afar language locale for Djibouti (Cadu/Laaqo Dialects)." /usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_ER:title "Afar language locale for Eritrea (Cadu/Laaqo Dialects)." /usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_ER@saaho:title "Afar language locale for Eritrea (Saaho Dialect)." /usr/share/i18n/locales/aa_ET:title "Afar language locale for Ethiopia (Cadu/Carra Dialects)." /usr/share/i18n/locales/af_ZA:title "Afrikaans locale for South Africa" /usr/share/i18n/locales/am_ET:title "Amharic language locale for Ethiopia." /usr/share/i18n/locales/an_ES:title "Aragonese locale for Spain" /usr/share/i18n/locales/ar_AE:title "Arabic language locale for United Arab Emirates" /usr/share/i18n/locales/ar_BH:title "Arabic language locale for Bahrain"
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